Buchbindebuch

About

The goal of this thesis is to show, that even without an apprenticeship as a bookbinder and without expensive machines it is still possible to bind excellent books, with regular materials and tools nearly everyone has at home already. It is the intention to impart the most necessary knowledge about the materials and to give the readers helpful advices, which should make bookbinding easier and are coming from firsthand experience. Not only the most common binding techniques, which can be found in binderies, but also the doors to the field of book arts will be opened and explained, with bindings which are different and not that conventional, but not necessarily more difficult to do.